“The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty.”
More from Sarah Manguso
“Depression doesn’t just steal the depressed person’s capacity for joy. It throws its…”
“Maybe the best way to remember anything accurately is to write it down and forget it, and…”
“Some people ditch friends and lovers because it’s easier to get new ones than to resolve…”
“Happiness begins to deteriorate once it is named.”